In the age of HIV, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the Ebola Virus and BSE, metaphors and experience of contagion are a central concern of government, biomedicine and popular culture.
Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of 'contagion' as a concept in postmodern reconceptualisations of embodied subjectivity.
The essays are written from within the fields of cultural studies, biomedical history and critical sociology. The contributors examine the geographies, policies and identities which have been produced in the massive social effort to contain diseases. They explore both social responses to infectious diseases in the past, and contemporary theoretical and biomedical sites for the study of contagion.
List of illustrations vii List of contributors viii Acknowledgements xi Abbreviations xiii Introduction: contagion, modernity and postmodernity 1(14) Alison Bashford Claire Hooker PART 1 Contagion and cultural histories of the modern world The meaning of contagion: reproduction, medicine and metaphor 15(24) Margaret Pelling Foreign bodies: vaccination, contagion and colonialism in the nineteenth century 39(22) Alison Bashford Moral contagion and the will: the crisis of masculinity in fin-de-siecle France 61(15) Christopher E. Forth Excremental colonialism: public health and the poetics of pollution 76(30) Warwick Anderson Leprosy and the management of race, sexuality and nation in tropical Australia 106(23) Alison Bashford Maria Nugent Sanitary failure and risk: pasteurisation, immunisation and the logics of prevention 129(24) Claire Hooker PART 2 Contaminating capacities in postmodernity Vulnerable bodies and ontological contamination 153(15) Margrit Shildrick A pigs tale: porcine viruses and species boundaries 168(15) Marsha Rosengarten Taking the HIV test: self-surveillance and the making of heterosexuality 183(18) Lisa Adkins The promiscuous placenta: crossing over 201(16) Jane-Maree Maher Carrier - becoming symborg 217(10) Melinda Rackham Select bibliography 227(5) Index 232
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